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Mr Dafoe

A heavy, steeply slanted brush script revived by Sudtipos from the hand-lettered alphabets of Charles Bluemlein.

Script 1 style by Sudtipos OFL

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Mr Dafoe is a brush script from Sudtipos, with Alejandro Paul named as designer, that revives one of the hand-lettered alphabets assembled by Charles Bluemlein. Mr Dafoe has one Regular style with 235 glyphs for the basic Latin character set. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits logos, titles and short phrases.

Mr Dafoe font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Sudtipos
Classification
Script
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
235
Languages checked
14 see the list
Last updated
version 1.000
Used for
LogosBrandingRetroSocial media

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Mr Dafoe; the download contains the complete files.

Mr Dafoe font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Mr Dafoe specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Mr Dafoe Regular

About Mr Dafoe

Mr Dafoe is a script typeface with thick, fast brush strokes and a steep slant. The lowercase joins along a low baseline, and the capitals in the specimen are wide, with long strokes that sweep under and over the letters beside them. Its source is a set of scripts put together by Charles Bluemlein in the era of professional hand lettering in the United States, from the 1930s to the Second World War. Bluemlein collected signatures, built full alphabets out of them, gave the results invented names and showed them in Higgins Ink catalogues. Alejandro Paul and Sudtipos redrew these scripts as digital fonts and kept the invented names, Mr Dafoe among them. The font has one Regular style, 235 glyphs, and is not a variable font. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mr Dafoe works

Logos with a signature look
The alphabet grew out of real signatures, and a name set in it keeps that signed-by-hand character.
Titles for film, music and sport
Heavy strokes and the steep slant give a short title momentum.
Retro advertising layouts
The script belongs to American hand lettering of the 1930s and 1940s and fits layouts that refer to that period.
Social media headers
Two or three words in Mr Dafoe stay legible over a photograph because the strokes are thick.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 235 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2011 Alejandro Paul (sudtipos@sudtipos.com), with Reserved Font Name "Mr Dafoe"

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Mr Dafoe

Amiri Serif

Mr Dafoe is a script face for headings; Amiri is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Inter Sans Serif

Mr Dafoe is a script face for headings; Inter is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cormorant Serif

Mr Dafoe is a script face for headings; Cormorant is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Mr Dafoe on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Mr Dafoe";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MrDafoe-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Mr Dafoe", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Mr Dafoe with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style
Mr Dafoe has a single Regular font. There is no lighter cut or bold.
Basic Latin only
The 235 glyphs cover Western European languages; letters for Polish, Czech or Turkish are not complete.
Capitals overlap in a row
In the specimen's all-capitals line the sweeping strokes collide; the capitals are meant to start words.
Reserved Font Name
The copyright notice reserves the name Mr Dafoe for the original font.

FAQs

Is Mr Dafoe free for commercial use?

Mr Dafoe is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so it can be used free of charge in commercial work as well as personal work, and it can be modified and redistributed. It cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions remain under the same license and may not use the Reserved Font Name Mr Dafoe without permission.

Who designed Mr Dafoe?

Mr Dafoe is credited to Sudtipos, and the font's name table names Alejandro Paul. It is a digital revival of a script from Charles Bluemlein's collection.

Where does the name Mr Dafoe come from?

Mr Dafoe is one of the fictitious names Charles Bluemlein gave to the script alphabets he constructed from signatures; the digital version keeps that name.

How many weights does Mr Dafoe have?

Mr Dafoe has one weight, Regular 400.

Which languages does Mr Dafoe support?

Mr Dafoe includes the letters needed for English and Western European languages such as French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch, plus Estonian.

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